is there any comparison? I work with spreadsheet s a lot, and do all my personal finances in them. lots of lookup functions, and financial and scientific forumalae needed. How does Numbers fare with real world spreadsheeting? all that i can gather on the mac site is that it "manipulates data easily" and is "pretty".
mac numbers vs excel
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JHZR2
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excel is the standard. I use it for mac. Not worth the hassle messing with something else if you truly need to use a tool like it versus something simpler.
Why not Openoffice?
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Openoffice is a pain Ive found compared to how MS office works. For heavy users, the cost savings isnt worth the hassle.
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is there any comparison? I work with spreadsheet s a lot, and do all my personal finances in them. lots of lookup functions, and financial and scientific forumalae needed. How does Numbers fare with real world spreadsheeting? all that i can gather on the mac site is that it "manipulates data easily" and is "pretty".
I have found that nothing comes close to Excel for spreadsheeting. For statistical analysis there are better tools but for financial analysis and reports Excel is the best. The 2007 is much more robust than 2003 and fixed a lot of the old bugs.
is there any comparison? I work with spreadsheet s a lot, and do all my personal finances in them. lots of lookup functions, and financial and scientific forumalae needed. How does Numbers fare with real world spreadsheeting? all that i can gather on the mac site is that it "manipulates data easily" and is "pretty".
I have found that nothing comes close to Excel for spreadsheeting. For statistical analysis there are better tools but for financial analysis and reports Excel is the best. The 2007 is much more robust than 2003 and fixed a lot of the old bugs.
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Openoffice is a pain Ive found compared to how MS office works. For heavy users, the cost savings isnt worth the hassle.
i agree, while i like that openoffice exists, excel works much better for me. really is an extremely powerful programme.
i guess there is always office for mac!
Openoffice is a pain Ive found compared to how MS office works. For heavy users, the cost savings isnt worth the hassle.
i agree, while i like that openoffice exists, excel works much better for me. really is an extremely powerful programme.
i guess there is always office for mac!
Numbers and Excel work perfectly with each other. The one downside for Numbers is it does not get into the real complex stuff that Excel does, but to which extent I am not sure.
I personally find numbers easier to use, but as mentioned, if you are used to Excel stick with it.
I personally find numbers easier to use, but as mentioned, if you are used to Excel stick with it.
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